As for #1, if my experience is anything to go by, substitute your Moleskines for Leuchtturm notebooks. (I've used Moleskines as my go-to field notebook for fif

As for #1, if my experience is anything to go by, substitute your Moleskines for Leuchtturm notebooks. (I've used Moleskines as my go-to field notebook for fifteen years or so, until making the switch to Leuchtturm a couple of years ago - the paper is vastly better, ink dries faster, less bleeding, pages are even numbered - overall an even better product than the moleskines (which I am still very fond of, mind)